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Daily Archives: 29 January 2009
A good day
Now we must all pray that in the near future men of good will can work out differences with humility and charity towards each other.
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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I’d gladly pay you Tuesday for a poll response today
Some say the burger is the perfect food group.
So what’s it gonna be?
A hamburger? A cheeseburger?
Of course, you can add all sorts of other things, such as lettuce or tomato, or a smear of mustard or mayo.
Call it a "California" … Continue reading
Posted in POLLS
84 Comments
The Remnant: SSPX reconciliation by 2 February?
The traditional Catholic paper The Remnant has a piece by a frequent comment writer here, Brian Mershon, about a possible reconciliation of the SSPX with Rome perhaps by Candlemas, 2 February.
I will not parse Mershon’s whole piece, for it is … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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Are pro-lifers falling into the FOCA Trap?
I received this very interesting note from a staffer of a US Congressman whom I will not identify for obvious reasons. I have his permission to share this:
My emphases
Fr. Z:
As a Congressional staffer, I am extremely concerned that we pro-lifers … Continue reading
Posted in The future and our choices
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Card. Castrillon: Bp. Fellay recognized Vatican II
The johnny-on-the-spot site Rorate has two good pieces you would do well to look at.
First, there is an entry called Cardinal Castrillón: Relevant declarations to Corriere della Sera Also check Corriere.
Here is a salient point or two:
The Holy See did … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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Dissenter Leonardo Boff against Pope Benedict on SSPX
And now… another dog bites man story from a washed up dissenter.
This is in from ANSA:
Liberation theologian and dissenter Leonardo Boff has determined that the lifting of the excommunications of the four SSPX bishops was a mistake.
It is obviously part … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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A good note from Alcuin Reid on the SSPX development
Several alert readers have sent me the following which I finally tracked down to our friends at NLM. Go check them out and spike their stats.
The piece says it is from The Catholic Herald, the best Catholic paper in the … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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An interesting notion
As I have been writing again and again, people of good will can disagree on really hard questions rising from the Council’s documents on points that are not clear. We can argue about how to approach ecumenism or religious liberty.
There … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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More from Brisbane’s Fr. Kennedy
More from Brisbane on the renegade priest. Fr. Peter Kennedy and St. Mary’s the renegade parish he has distorted. Check for backgroud here and here and here.
For this last bit of dross, check out Coo-ees from the Cloister.
There is now … Continue reading
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